disjecta
Lucky Duck
For those interested:
http://finalcutpro.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=28310
http://finalcutpro.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=28310
Wedding Videography Article
- Thread starter disjecta
- Start date
JohnT
Well-known member
Re: Wedding Videography Article
Very Interesting. Ive been getting around $1500.00 per Wedding. If its small, just the Wedding and reception I might do 1k. I wish it was two a month,but like the it mentioned, editing takes awhile. Sure would like a hard drive to record to. That would save some time.
Very Interesting. Ive been getting around $1500.00 per Wedding. If its small, just the Wedding and reception I might do 1k. I wish it was two a month,but like the it mentioned, editing takes awhile. Sure would like a hard drive to record to. That would save some time.
dvpixl
Veteran
Re: Wedding Videography Article
nonsense article. I am that amateur turned pro. I have never upset any customers since I began. At most, I heard, put those pro's out of business because their videos suck!!!
but I agree and disagree to that comment because I understand why pro's make their videos the way they do... but I'm not going to elaborate.
nonsense article. I am that amateur turned pro. I have never upset any customers since I began. At most, I heard, put those pro's out of business because their videos suck!!!
but I agree and disagree to that comment because I understand why pro's make their videos the way they do... but I'm not going to elaborate.
bodaphoto
Well-known member
Re: Wedding Videography Article
The prices depend on the market. IN our area it is the 'Slower Lower Shore" I don't see any $5,000.00 packages down here.
We have 3 packages two advertised. $1500.00 is our top right now, but doesn't include frills, it is a 3-camera shoot.
$1,000.00 for a 2 camera shoot. Then we have a $600.00 1 camera, minimal editing, package, I don't do those we have two "Apprentices" that do those.
Their comment about amateurs moving, Everyone was an amateur before they became a professional. That comment didn't even make sense or fit with the article very well.
The prices depend on the market. IN our area it is the 'Slower Lower Shore" I don't see any $5,000.00 packages down here.
We have 3 packages two advertised. $1500.00 is our top right now, but doesn't include frills, it is a 3-camera shoot.
$1,000.00 for a 2 camera shoot. Then we have a $600.00 1 camera, minimal editing, package, I don't do those we have two "Apprentices" that do those.
Their comment about amateurs moving, Everyone was an amateur before they became a professional. That comment didn't even make sense or fit with the article very well.
Re: Wedding Videography Article
I can buy deamweaver and macromedia, this does not make me a web designer. If I wanted to invest the time I could figure it out. But I paid a designer to handle it. This holds true in many areas of the tech-creative field.
Thanks for the aticle disjecta, intresting to see the industry and statistics.
I can buy deamweaver and macromedia, this does not make me a web designer. If I wanted to invest the time I could figure it out. But I paid a designer to handle it. This holds true in many areas of the tech-creative field.
Thanks for the aticle disjecta, intresting to see the industry and statistics.
dillonculp
Member
Re: Wedding Videography Article
well, I'm a freelance right now (you know on call for professional videographers that have their own business) and what I think they meant by amateurs are those that have consumer camcorders editing on a matrox g200 with ulead 2.5 with a crappy non fluid head tripod ect. Professionalism, I've learned, is first all in the "professional" look of your eqipment, 2nd your extensive planning, and 3rd your hard work.
well, I'm a freelance right now (you know on call for professional videographers that have their own business) and what I think they meant by amateurs are those that have consumer camcorders editing on a matrox g200 with ulead 2.5 with a crappy non fluid head tripod ect. Professionalism, I've learned, is first all in the "professional" look of your eqipment, 2nd your extensive planning, and 3rd your hard work.
THiNSPiRiT
Well-known member
Re: Wedding Videography Article
I believe the term professional is determined based on how regularly you do it. If it's a side thing that you use to supplement yourself with whatever jobs come your way, I don't think that's a profession. You do one a week and it supports you as your main source of income, that's professional... i don't think it has something to do with quality as both can be same quality, I think it has to do with your involvement in it...
I believe the term professional is determined based on how regularly you do it. If it's a side thing that you use to supplement yourself with whatever jobs come your way, I don't think that's a profession. You do one a week and it supports you as your main source of income, that's professional... i don't think it has something to do with quality as both can be same quality, I think it has to do with your involvement in it...
JohnT
Well-known member
Re: Wedding Videography Article
Hey Bodaphoto,
The cost I mentioned is for 2 cameras. Sometimes I put my Old Sony PD100a in the Top balcony of the church and shoot a Wide Master if I need a cut away or run all the house sound to it. Seems to work ok. I have the DVXs in the front of the church and cross shoot the bride and groom.
Hey Bodaphoto,
The cost I mentioned is for 2 cameras. Sometimes I put my Old Sony PD100a in the Top balcony of the church and shoot a Wide Master if I need a cut away or run all the house sound to it. Seems to work ok. I have the DVXs in the front of the church and cross shoot the bride and groom.
THiNSPiRiT
Well-known member
Re: Wedding Videography Article
That sounds like WAY more than the companies I know do... single camera shoots... they're filmed in a way that it looks like multiple camera shoots... less people working, less equipment, less tape stock, less editing hassles...
That sounds like WAY more than the companies I know do... single camera shoots... they're filmed in a way that it looks like multiple camera shoots... less people working, less equipment, less tape stock, less editing hassles...
bodaphoto
Well-known member
Re: Wedding Videography Article
John,
Sometimes I stick an 8mm camcorder on the dance floor and shoot in B&W and let it run. I usually put a camera in the back that is a cut away if we have to stable in a church. It runs it self. Sometimes they don't want you to move, they want you stationary. The last two weddings I have luck out with sound, becasue the sound guy at the churches mixed everything and burned me a CD. That is cool when that happens, but it is rare. Some of the sound systems in these churches are 30 years old, i am afraid to run anything to the DVX.
John,
Sometimes I stick an 8mm camcorder on the dance floor and shoot in B&W and let it run. I usually put a camera in the back that is a cut away if we have to stable in a church. It runs it self. Sometimes they don't want you to move, they want you stationary. The last two weddings I have luck out with sound, becasue the sound guy at the churches mixed everything and burned me a CD. That is cool when that happens, but it is rare. Some of the sound systems in these churches are 30 years old, i am afraid to run anything to the DVX.
Re: Wedding Videography Article
Doing wedding videos seems like a really tough business. Can people really make a decent living doing this work? Video production and post has too high of fixed costs, and just seems way too time intensive considering what most people are willing to pay.
In college I freelanced with a good package that included the DVX. People wanted me to do wedding videos with an edit for less than $200! Even doing one for under $2k with an edit I don't know how I would have survived if that was my only source of income.
I was wondering if there are people out there, doing strictly wedding videos, and making a living off it full-time. And out of curiousity, whats the business model.
Doing wedding videos seems like a really tough business. Can people really make a decent living doing this work? Video production and post has too high of fixed costs, and just seems way too time intensive considering what most people are willing to pay.
In college I freelanced with a good package that included the DVX. People wanted me to do wedding videos with an edit for less than $200! Even doing one for under $2k with an edit I don't know how I would have survived if that was my only source of income.
I was wondering if there are people out there, doing strictly wedding videos, and making a living off it full-time. And out of curiousity, whats the business model.
magicdavek
Well-known member
Re: Wedding Videography Article
I know a guy who does just that - weddings on weekends and legal depositions during the week. He's been doing that for about 20 years. Weddings are two camera shoots (I worked with him on second camera twice). The last time I worked with him 3 year ago, I was doing DV and he was still doing SVHS! He was on the verge of jumping ship to DV. When I got my DVX100A this May, I left a message on his answering machine about being a second camera with him (A quick $100 for an hour's work and NO post!) but he never got back to me.
Friday, I'll be doing a wedding. I'm pathetic. I just can't bring myself to do anything less than a 3 camera shoot. I'll actually have five going. Three will have operators (me, and my two teenage sons - cheap labor) and two on tripods with no operator. I feel so responsible for making sure it comes out, that I have two for back up (normally one, but I happen to have access to another and figured what the heck). If the three come out fine, I won't even look at the footage from the other two. I dump the three into FinalCutPro and edit away (and away, and away . . .) :-[
I know a guy who does just that - weddings on weekends and legal depositions during the week. He's been doing that for about 20 years. Weddings are two camera shoots (I worked with him on second camera twice). The last time I worked with him 3 year ago, I was doing DV and he was still doing SVHS! He was on the verge of jumping ship to DV. When I got my DVX100A this May, I left a message on his answering machine about being a second camera with him (A quick $100 for an hour's work and NO post!) but he never got back to me.
Friday, I'll be doing a wedding. I'm pathetic. I just can't bring myself to do anything less than a 3 camera shoot. I'll actually have five going. Three will have operators (me, and my two teenage sons - cheap labor) and two on tripods with no operator. I feel so responsible for making sure it comes out, that I have two for back up (normally one, but I happen to have access to another and figured what the heck). If the three come out fine, I won't even look at the footage from the other two. I dump the three into FinalCutPro and edit away (and away, and away . . .) :-[
THiNSPiRiT
Well-known member
Re: Wedding Videography Article
Doing wedding videos well and still getting profit is something that is learned with experience. The first wedding video I filmed we lost a great deal of money off of based on the time and effort put into the video. We had limited technical resources and limited experience and so the videos didn't turn out the greatest, although they were very much worth the money that was spent on them.
After doing two wedding videos I've been able to come to the conclusion that you can do a successful wedding video with one camera and strong editing. Tell the bride and groom exactly what they're getting. Have a formula to the video that you'll be making and know exactly the coverage that you'll need. Weddings are all the same and follow a very similar format. They deviate very little. By knowing exactly what a wedding will have you can make a wedding video the bride and groom will love that is shot with a single camera. I can easily charge $1500 for a single camera shoot with full editing and a produced DVD for a wedding video. This is a low end package. You do not need a multiple camera shoot on a wedding. If you shoot well with a single camera that's all you need. You simply need to give the bride and groom a taste of their wedding with their wedding footage. Their memories of the day will fill the rest in. Get the important stuff, some sweet shots, some b-roll, and you're set for editing. You shouldn't shoot more than 3 tapes on a wedding... 3-5 tapes is pretty standard on a single wedding. Shooting anymore and you're shooting yourself in the foot for time spent on working on it and resources spent on it.
Doing wedding videos well and still getting profit is something that is learned with experience. The first wedding video I filmed we lost a great deal of money off of based on the time and effort put into the video. We had limited technical resources and limited experience and so the videos didn't turn out the greatest, although they were very much worth the money that was spent on them.
After doing two wedding videos I've been able to come to the conclusion that you can do a successful wedding video with one camera and strong editing. Tell the bride and groom exactly what they're getting. Have a formula to the video that you'll be making and know exactly the coverage that you'll need. Weddings are all the same and follow a very similar format. They deviate very little. By knowing exactly what a wedding will have you can make a wedding video the bride and groom will love that is shot with a single camera. I can easily charge $1500 for a single camera shoot with full editing and a produced DVD for a wedding video. This is a low end package. You do not need a multiple camera shoot on a wedding. If you shoot well with a single camera that's all you need. You simply need to give the bride and groom a taste of their wedding with their wedding footage. Their memories of the day will fill the rest in. Get the important stuff, some sweet shots, some b-roll, and you're set for editing. You shouldn't shoot more than 3 tapes on a wedding... 3-5 tapes is pretty standard on a single wedding. Shooting anymore and you're shooting yourself in the foot for time spent on working on it and resources spent on it.
